This traditional list does not accord strictly with human thalamic anatomy.

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thalamus The thalamus (from Greek θάλαμος, "chamber") is a large mass of gray matter located in the dorsal part of the diencephalon (a division of the forebrain). Nerve fibers project out of the thalamus to the cerebral cortex in all direct ...

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anterior nuclear group The anterior nuclei of thalamus (or anterior nuclear group) are a collection of nuclei at the rostral end of the dorsal thalamus. They comprise the anteromedial, anterodorsal, and anteroventral nuclei. Inputs and outputs The anterior nuclei recei ...

** anteroventral nucleus ** anterodorsal nucleus ** anteromedial nucleus **superficial ("lateral dorsal") *medial nuclear group (or dorsomedial nucleus) ** parvocellular part **

magnocellular part The magnocellular red nucleus (mRN or mNR or RNm) is located in the rostral midbrain and is involved in motor coordination. Together with the parvocellular red nucleus, the mRN makes up the red nucleus. Due to the role it plays in motor coordina ...

midline nuclear group The midline nuclear group (or midline thalamic nuclei) is a region of the thalamus consisting of the following nuclei: * paraventricular nucleus of thalamus (''nucleus paraventricularis thalami'') - not to be confused with paraventricular nucleus ...

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paratenial nucleus The paratenial nucleus, or parataenial nucleus ( la, nucleus parataenialis), is a component of the midline nuclear group in the thalamus. It is sometimes subdivided into the nucleus parataenialis interstitialis and nucleus parataenialis parvocellu ...

** paraventricular nucleus of thalamus **

reuniens nucleus The nucleus reuniens is a region of the thalamic midline nuclear group. In the human brain, it is located in the interthalamic adhesion (''massa intermedia''). The nucleus reuniens receives afferent input from a large number of structures, mai ...

rhomboidal nucleus Traditionally, in two-dimensional geometry, a rhomboid is a parallelogram in which adjacent sides are of unequal lengths and angles are non-right angled. A parallelogram with sides of equal length (equilateral) is a rhombus but not a rhomboid. ...

*Intralaminar nuclear group (

Intralaminar nuclei The intralaminar thalamic nuclei (ITN) are collections of neurons in the internal medullary lamina of the thalamus that are generally divided in two groups as follows:Mancall, E., Brock, D. & Gray, H. (2011). Gray's clinical neuroanatomy the anat ...

) **anterior (rostral) group *** paracentral nucleus ***

central lateral nucleus In the human brain, the central lateral nucleus is a part of the anterior intralaminar nucleus in the thalamus. The intralaminar nuclei project to many different regions of the brain, The thalamus The thalamus (from Greek θάλαμος, "cha ...

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central medial nucleus In the anatomy of the brain, the centromedian nucleus, also known as the centrum medianum, (CM or Cm-Pf) is a part of the intralaminar thalamic nuclei (ITN) in the thalamus. There are two centromedian nuclei arranged bilaterally. In humans, it c ...

**posterior (caudal) intralaminar group *** centromedian nucleus ***parafascicular nucleus *

lateral nuclear group The lateral nuclear group is a collection of nuclei on the lateral side of the thalamus. According to MeSH A mesh is a barrier made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible or ductile materials. A mesh is similar to a web or ...

in fact a false entity replaced by **posterior region *** pulvinar **** anterior pulvinar nucleus **** lateral pulvinar nucleus **** medial pulvinar nucleus **** inferior pulvinar nucleus *** lateral posterior nucleus belongs to pulvinar ***( lateral dorsal nucleus) belongs to anterior group ** ventral nuclear group *** ventral anterior nucleus ***

ventral lateral nucleus The ventral lateral nucleus (VL) is a nucleus in the ventral nuclear group of the thalamus. Inputs and outputs It receives neuronal inputs from the basal ganglia which includes the substantia nigra and the globus pallidus (via the thalamic fascic ...

*** ventral intermediate nucleus *** ventral posterior nucleus or ventrobasal complex **** ventral posterolateral **** ventral posteromedial **** ventral intermediate nucleus * metathalamus no longer used for the geniculate group ** medial geniculate body **

lateral geniculate body In neuroanatomy, the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN; also called the lateral geniculate body or lateral geniculate complex) is a structure in the thalamus and a key component of the mammalian visual pathway. It is a small, ovoid, ventral projec ...

* thalamic reticular nucleus part of the ventral thalamus

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